A study on employee empowerment in agribusiness sector

Empowerment is one of the efficient ways of facilitating employees at all management levels to utilize their ideas to enhance the performance of the organization. Authority, freedom to take decisions, responsibility, resource etc give empowerment to the employees to do their duties and responsibilities. Hence empowerment supports the employees to accomplish their task successfully. The main aim of the present study was to measure the level of empowerment and find out the relationship between empowerment and job involvement. Snowball sampling method was used to collect the information from the sample respondents. The study was confined to the agribusiness sector in Tamil Nadu. The agribusiness sectors selected were bank, retail and input company each sector consisting of 40 samples making a total sample size of 120. Primary data were collected from the employees of agribusiness sector through online by using elaborate and structured-questionnaire. It was found that majority of the sample respondents were moderately empowered and there was a substantial association between empowerment and job involvement.